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SAMBA & MSOffice ReadOnly Files

A constant and annoying problem that keeps on cropping up is that when someone opens a MSOffice document on any samba share the document becomes read-only. I have tried everything short of compromising security nothing has worked. Any help would be appreciated.

I have seen Samba change the permissions to that of the user last in the file.

Is it read only for even that user?

Check the file permissions on the server, as well as the owner and group. while your at it, check the permissions on the directory the files are in.

The other thing to look at is the umask for the users. often this is set to make the file exclusively theirs, so you need to change this so that it adds GROUP permissions as well, and them add users to the groups that they need.

The other thing that happens, if someone else has that file open, everyone else will get it as read-only. Make sure people aren't opening the file and leaving it open.

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